What's new in this release

Storware Backup and Recovery 7.4

VergeOS - Option to override NAS server on Hypervisor level

Storware Backup and Recovery now allows users to define a dedicated NAS Server at the Hypervisor level for Verge hosts. This setting, available in the new Verge OS settings tab in Hypervisor details, ensures that when specified, the hypervisor-level NAS Server overrides the HVM entry during both backup and restore operations. This enhancement improves scalability in Verge environments by preventing large numbers of nodes from relying on a single NAS server, offering better performance and flexibility in storage configurations.

VergeOS - Optimized data sparsification during store operation

Storware Backup and Recovery now optimizes the Store Task by leveraging allocated block maps.This enhancement allows the system to skip the redundant step of checking whether blocks are empty during synchronization. The block list is now collected in the Export Task phase, enabling Store Task to bypass sparsification when empty block data is already provided.

OpenShift - Staging space and checksum handling optimizations

Storware Backup and Recovery introduces improvements in staging space management and checksum handling. These optimizations reduce overhead during data processing and help streamline backup and restore operations. The result is faster performance and more efficient resource usage.

OpenShift - Direct metadata transfer to the node

Storware Backup and Recovery now supports direct metadata transfer to the node for OADP environments. Previously, MinIO had to run as a pod on OpenShift with NFS-mounted staging. With this enhancement, MinIO can be executed directly on the node as a bundled binary, simplifying deployment, reducing dependencies on NFS, and paving the way for future container-based implementations.

OpenStack - New transfer module implementation

Storware Backup and Recovery introduces a new transfer module for OpenStack that enables writing backups directly to the destination, bypassing the staging area. This improvement streamlines the backup process and enhances overall efficiency.

OpenStack - Console plugin for Skyline

Storware Backup and Recovery now provides a console plugin for Skyline, allowing integration with the Skyline interface. This enhancement simplifies management and monitoring by bringing backup operations closer to the native environment.

OSA - Quarkus server update to 3.20

Storware Backup and Recovery updates its runtime to Quarkus 3.20, delivering performance improvements, reduced startup/idle overhead, and enhanced stability. This upgrade also brings security and bug fixes from the Quarkus 3.20 line, improving overall reliability under production workloads.